The Minimum Wage in Formal and Informal Sectors: Evidence from an Inflation Shock

-Data Availability:
	The data comes from Colombia's National Household Survey for the years 1996-2000. 
	The monthly minimum wage information comes from the Colomnbian Central Bank.
	Information of transportation subsidy comes from the Colombian Institute of Tax Law.
	Price indexes and annual financial sector GDP come from the Colombian National Department of Statistics.
	For more information please got to Appendix A. All data can be found in /Data/Original .

-Computational Requirements:
	Stata (code was last run with version 15)
	� outreg2
	� cgmrif2 included in Code/Est

-Descriptions of programs:
	mw.do is the master file and it is located in the same folder as this README.txt file
	In there, all necesary dofiles are gathered and organized to replicate the results of the paper.
	Sections:
	� Import Data: Call all original data and converts to Stata format.
	� Clean Data: Clean datasets and arranges them in proper formats.
	� Build Source Datasets: Generate datasets for estimations.
	� Estimation programs: Generate programs within Stata for estimations and results.
	� Paper: Code to build tables and figures included in the article.
		Note that the code is ordered according to the order in which the Figures and Tables appear in the paper.
-Contact:

	For more information do not hesitate to contact us!
	Jorge Eduardo P�rez P�rez (author) 		jorgepp@banxico.org.mx
	Diego Mayorga C�rdova (research assistant)	dmayorgac@banxico.org.mx
	




